Message Distortion Quotes

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

The medium obscured the message.

The message sent is not always the message received.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

oh how television diminishes everything.

Americans don’t do a good job, and shouldn’t do a good job, at separating the message from the messenger, when the messenger is killing people.

Television’s a funny thing. You can be edited in ways that makes you appear to say what you didn’t say.